Re: PostMessage problem
To be fair, nothing on a computer is done concurrently outside of multiple
CPU's doing work together. What is happening is that they are all sharing
time together as the computer becomes idle. It probably shouldn't matter
which event handlers get called first or second, but if it does you should
have one call the other or use SendMessage() as Kiran suggests to block one
message call until it is complete.
Tom
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Hi all,
I have 3 GUI dialogs in my application - just call them A , B , C.
A is the parent dialog that creates B and C.
At some point in time, A creates a thread that PostMessage(custom
message) to B and C, which will go on and do some stuffs. According to
MSDN, PostMessage will return immediately without waiting for B and C's
message handler function to complete, on the condition that PostMessage
was invoked from within a different thread that created the Windows
receiving the message.
So in my app, I noticed that PostMessage did return immediately without
waiting for B and C's message handler function to complete. All good.
My observations:
1. I also noticed that C's message handler did not start until B's has
finished.
2. If I were to post custom message to B and then post WM_CLOSE to C
and , then C's message handler (OnClose) would get invoked first
although a message was sent to B before that.
Here's my question:
1. Aren't B's and C's message handler supposed to get started
concurrently?
2. If not, what is the order?
Thanks.
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